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Show meeting of th offlosr and will cont In sc.. km for two daya. Th Mml-in: nwrllnic of th member of the aaaocla will Itsgln nt Wednesday moraine. 3. P. AS OF MANY RAILROADS WILL BE HERE NEXT WEEK taaaaaananaaaaaiaasssaaBwaaBB) Secretary of Transcontinental Transconti-nental Association TalKs of Convention. Fifty to sixty member of the Transcontinental Trans-continental Passenger association will spend practically all of next week ia Salt Lake City, la addition,' there will be many railroad men here who are nt members of th asaociation. Personally, Person-ally, 1 am glad that Salt Lake City woo out as th convention city. 1 am glad to be here, and I believe that every member of th association who attends the semi-annual meting will be well satisfied that Salt Lake City was selected. K. L. bevington, secretary of Transcontinental Passenger association. Mr. Bevington arrived in Salt Lake City over the Denver ft Rio Grande at 2:15 o'clock this afternoon and did not save words, in a short chat, in say- ling mat n waa glad Halt Lake 1 ity i had won out ia the final fight for th i convention. "It will do a lot of th eastern boys good to get out west, for some of ' themdon't know anything Kiut the 1 west, except what they have heard. They will go back bom with a new ; idea of th west and, unless I am mistaken, mis-taken, they will have a mighty warm spot in their heart for Bait La'k City and her people." Mr. Bevington was accompanied by hi wife, his chief clerk and a stenographer. stenog-rapher. Also oa the speeial car was A. P. Manson, assistant general passenger pas-senger ageat of th Santa F, with headquarters at Chicago, and Mrs. Man. son. As Mr. Manson looked about th depot he remarked: ''Well, if this is th climate and th class of weather that they hav in Bait. Lake City, I am ready to mov her and spend the rest of my days." After a brief conference "with local railroad men the party took automobile automo-bile to th Hotel Utah. Th Hotel Utah will be the headquarters headquar-ters for th railroad men during the coming com-ing week. Jamoe Charlton. ipresldent of the' Trans, continental Passenger asaociation. will arrive ar-rive at 4:S0 o'clock thla afternoon over the Inlon Pacific and th Oregon Short Line. He Is accompanied by aeveral of the member of the executive committee and will be met by a number of local railroad men. The flret meeting of the association will he held Mondsy afternoon. This mill he a |